History Trivia / SodorTheEarlyYears

*** Both Thin Controllers Mr. Peter and Roger Sam were recasted by ShunterProductions in "Adeline the Phantom Engine"

* IKnewIt:
** Early in the first half of Season 1 of ''The Modern Years'', it was said that a steam locomotive was being restored at Crovan's Gate Steamworks. Fans immediately came to the conclusion that it was Lily, the Wellsworth & Suddery O2 tank engine who had mentored Thomas on running a branchline. When the episode "Homecoming" was released, they were proven correct.
** Averted with the "Devious Way" trilogy that capped off Season 2 of ''The Modern Years''. A few fans believed that the trouble on the Little Western was the work of either a mail coach (disgruntled after the discontinuation of dedicated post trains in "Percy's Post"), or Caden (going mad after being informed at the end of his eponymous episode that he was on thin ice, and decided to take someone down with him). They were proven wrong when a ballast hopper was revealed to be the culprit, and before that, by WordOfGod.

* TheWikiRule: The series has its own [[http://wildnorwester.wikia.com/wiki/WildNorWester_Wiki Wiki]].

*** The Thin Controller Mr. Peter Sam was recasted by ShunterProductions in "Adeline the Phantom Engine"

** Henry and Rex were voiced by TheScotsmanReturns, but was replaced by Bourbon-BobJimmy on the second half of season 2 of "Modern Years".

* TheOtherDarrin: Since the switchover of most of the characters having individual voices (with the exception of Emily Hatt and Alice's voice actress) in the last season of Early Years, many characters have been recasted overtime. These include:

** He eventually recovered and resumed work in July 2020, upgrading all of his models with 3D faces, giving Peter and Olivia new liveries, giving Lily a pair of glasses (as being underwater for over 70 years didn't do any favors to her eyesight), even creating a W&S version of Emily (the TV series character, not the current Fat Controller), and reiterating that, because of the reskinners, he no longer trusted anyone in the community and would not be releasing the new models. Then, on December 1, 2020, without any prior warning, Wildnorwester released all of the updated and newly-made models on his Website/DeviantArt, a download containing ''251'' models. He warned that, if anyone modified them, he would take them down immediately (though he gave full permission to change the engine and whistle sounds). As of December 18, 2020, the models are still up.

** After the above-detailed CreatorBreakdown, the remaining episodes of ''The Modern Years'' have become this. There were to be two more miniseries ("Adeline the Phantom Engine" and "Tinkerbell the Foreign Engine") and a feature-length GrandFinale title "Enterprising Engines".

** He eventually recovered and resumed work in July 2020, upgrading all of his models with 3D faces, giving Peter and Olivia new liveries, giving Lily a pair of glasses (as being underwater for over 70 years didn't do any favors to her eyesight), even creating a W&S version of Emily (the TV series character, not the current Fat Controller), and reiterating that, because of the reskinners, he no longer trusted anyone in the community and would not be releasing the new models. Then, on December 1, 2020, without any prior warning, Wildnorwester released all of the updated and newly-made models on his Website/DeviantArt, a download containing over ''250'' models. He warned that, if anyone modified them, he would take them down immediately (though he gave full permission to change the engine and whistle sounds). As of December 18, 2020, the models are still up.

* CreatorBreakdown: In September 2019, several of Wildnorwester's models were illegally reskinned and posted on Discord. When asked to take them down, the offenders insulted him. In response, Wildnorwester shut down his website (though left the door open for a future return, and the models were still available if one knew the web addresses for the download pages, but while the pages still exist, the download links were set to private sometime in March 2020), and all but disappeared from DeviantArt (though his profile is still open, revealing that all characters were receiving 3D faces in the lead-up to final episodes of ''The Modern Years''; at the time of the shutdown, the only updated models publicly released were Toby and the Scottish Twins). As a result, the remaining episodes of ''The Modern Years'' have been cancelled, and Wildnorwester has stated he is quitting Website/YouTube.
** Note that this is not the first time a major Trainz Thomas site has shut down or removed models due to outside influences: the first major takedown was when Creator/HitEntertainment discovered [=MSTNoodle's=] Thomas models and issued a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers cease-and-desist]]. The models by Chris Burgess were taken down in 2008 due to the amount of "gimme pigs", which resulted in the formation of the famed Sodor Island 3D, which itself was shut down in January 2018 after a DeviantArt user illegally uploaded the 2010 models, and responded to anyone telling him to take them down with profanity. [=SI3Ds=] shutdown let Sodor Workshops (another site formed in the wake of the Burgess models' takedown) become the foremost Trainz Thomas content provider, and has already released models for TRS2019 with ''eyes you can move'', and are also making an updated version of Sodor Island 3D's old Island of Sodor route.

** While this itself didn't make screen, it did become a project [=TobyAndMavisForever=] put together on Website/Deviantart in picture format, the dialogue of what's going on below her pictures.

* CreatorBreakdown: In September 2019, several of Wildnorwester's models were illegally reskinned and posted on Discord. When asked to take them down, the offenders insulted him. In response, Wildnorwester shut down his website (though left the door open for a future return, and the models were still available if one knew the web addresses for the download pages, but these were taken down sometime in March 2020), and all but disappeared from DeviantArt (though his profile is still open, revealing that all characters were receiving 3D faces in the lead-up to final episodes of ''The Modern Years''; at the time of the shutdown, the only updated models publicly released were Toby and the Scottish Twins). As a result, the remaining episodes of ''The Modern Years'' have been cancelled, and Wildnorwester has stated he is quitting Website/YouTube.

* CreatorBreakdown: In September 2019, several of Wildnorwester's models were illegally reskinned and posted on Discord. When asked to take them down, the offenders insulted him. In response, Wildnorwester shut down his website (though left the door open for a future return, and the models were still available if one knew the web addresses for the download pages, but these were taken down sometime in March 2020), and all but disappeared from DeviantArt (though his profile is still open, revealing that all characters were receiving 3D faces in the lead-up to final episodes of ''The Modern Years''; at the time of the shutdown, the only updated models publicly released were Toby and the Scottish Twins). As a result, the remaining episodes of ''The Modern Years'' have been cancelled, and Wildnorwester has stated he is quitting YouTube.

* CreatorBreakdown: In September 2019, several of Wildnorwester's models were illegally reskinned and posted on Discord. When asked to take them down, the offenders insulted him. In response, Wildnorwester shut down his website (though left the door open for a future return, and the models were still available if one knew the web addresses for the download pages, but these were taken down sometime in March 2020), and all but disappeared from DeviantArt (though his profile is still open, revealing that all characters were receiving 3D faces in the lead-up to Season 3 of ''The Modern Years''; at the time of the shutdown, the only updated models publicly released were Toby and the Scottish Twins). As a result, Season 3 of ''The Modern Years'' is assumed to be in DevelopmentHell.